Improved slide-lacing and shoe-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ROBERT-ADAMS, 0E CINCINNATI, oEIo.

IMPROVED SLIDE-LACING AND SHOE-FASTENER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,364, dated October2, 1866.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT ADAMS, of Gincinnati, Hamilton county, andState of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in aSlide-Lacing Shoe-Fastener, of which the following is a full and cleardescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,forming part of this specification.

My improvement consists in the application of a device to the lacing ofa shoe to enable the fastening or unfastenin g bya sliding movement.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the shoewith my fastener as applied, and shownin a fastened position as worn onthe foot. Fig. 2 is a perspective view, showing the device unfastened,allowing the shoe to expand by the sliding of the fastener down to thebottom of the lacing. Fig. 3 represents the device ready to be appliedto a shoe. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section, showing the lacing partlyloosened.

A is the shoe, to which eyelets are placed in the quarters to receivelacing. B is a tongue placed on the outside of the shoe, to which isfastened at the upper end4 the slide-fastener C.

By means of lacing D the tongue B is held firmly at its lower end toshoe A by being laced through both shoe and tongue in a manner so thatit cannot become detached at that point. The balance of the lacingcontinues to be woven through and through both shoe and tongue fromlower end of tongue to the upper end, and through the fastener O, asshown in drawings.

Having described the construction of my the front of the foot, and tofasten tongue B in the position as shown in Fig. l. Turn up the hingedor jointed partof fastener, as shown in Fig. l, which will clamp thelacing D and hold the device rmly in place.

In order to release it, so as to be able to take the shoe oli the foot,turn down jointed part of device, and the sliding of the tongue down onthe lacing, as shown in Fig. 2, allows the laced part of the shoe toexpand, so as to be removed from the foot.

Having fully described my invention, what I clairn,and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. The jointed slide-fastener O, as constructed and operating, for thepurpose set forth.

2. So arranging the lacing D that it acts as a guide for tongue B andfastener O.

3. Slide-fastener O, tongue B, as arranged, in combination with lacingD, as constructed and operating, for purposes set forth..

ROBERT ADAMS.

Attest:

WM. DoEGEN, CARLO PIoPHo.

